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Rites and ceremonies

-- See Also the narrower term Birth customs

-- See Also the narrower term Buddhism Customs and practices

--subdivision Customs and practices under names of individual sects, e.g. Rinzai (Sect)--Customs and practices

-- See Also the narrower term Canonization

-- See Also the narrower term Ceremonial exchange

Here are entered works on ritualized gift exchanges whose ends are primarily social or religious.

-- See Also the narrower term Ceremonial objects

-- See Also the narrower term Coronations

--subdivision Coronation under names of rulers

-- See Also the narrower term Exorcism

-- See Also the narrower term Fasts and feasts

Here are entered works on religious fasts and feasts in general and on Christian fasts and feasts. The heading may also be divided by religious body or non-Christian religion, e.g. Fasts and feasts--Catholic Church, [Judaism, etc.] For fasts and feasts of a religious body occurring in a particular place, add a second heading Fasts and feasts--[local subdivision].

-- See Also the narrower term Fasts and feasts

-- See Also the narrower term Fetishism

-- See Also the narrower term Flag raising and lowering

-- See Also the narrower term Funeral rites and ceremonies

--subdivision Funeral customs and rites under ethnic groups

-- See Also the narrower term Honor guards

-- See Also the narrower term Incantations

-- See Also the narrower term Initiation rites

-- See Also the narrower term Initiations (into trades, societies, etc.)

-- See Also the narrower term Last meal before execution

-- See Also the narrower term Liminality

-- See Also Manners and customs

Here are entered general works on folkways, customs, ceremonies, festivals, popular traditions, etc., treated collectively.
--subdivision Social life and customs under names of countries, cities, etc., and under classes of persons and ethnic groups

-- See Also Manners and customs

Here are entered general works on folkways, customs, ceremonies, festivals, popular traditions, etc., treated collectively
--subdivision Social life and customs under names of countries, cities, etc., and under classes of persons and ethnic groups

-- See Also Manners and customs

-- See Also the narrower term Marriage customs and rites

--subdivision Marriage customs and rites under ethnic groups

-- See Also the narrower term Memorial rites and ceremonies

-- See Also the narrower term Mourning customs

-- See Also Mysteries, Religious

-- See Also the narrower term Naming ceremonies

-- See Also the narrower term Ordination

-- See Also the narrower term Processions

Here are entered works on the action of a group of persons moving or marching along in orderly succession in a formal or ceremonial way. Works on large public processions of a festive nature, usually including a marching band, and held in honor of an anniversary, person or event, are entered under Parades.

-- See Also the narrower term Puberty rites

-- See Also the narrower term Purity, Ritual

-- See Also Ritual

--subdivision Liturgy under Judaism; under individual Jewish and Christian sects; under names of individual Christian monastic and religious orders; and under individual Jewish and Christian ceremonies, rituals, holidays, etc., e.g. Catholic Church--Liturgy; Judaism--Ari rite--Liturgy; Jesuits--Liturgy; Seder--Liturgy; Good Friday--Liturgy; and subdivision Rituals under names of individual religions and sects other than Judaism and Jewish and Christian sects, e.g. Buddhism--Rituals

-- See Also the narrower term Sacraments

-- See Also the narrower term Secret societies

--names of individual secret societies

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